How do you make "videosnapshots" of xfce 4.0.x in webpage?

[Dave Hope]

Francois Le Clainche wrote:
> Le lundi 27 décembre 2004 à 11:51 +0000, Dave Hope a écrit :
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>>>Hi,
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> Hi,
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>>Hello, a belated Merry Christmas,
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>>>First of all, happy xmas to all.
>>>I remember that in the old webpage, there is a flash player videos of 4.0.x 
>>>xfce releases.
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>>Indeed there ?Was?,
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> Result of bandwidth usage limitation policy.
> Idem for the screenshots.

Ahah, contact me off-list if you're in need of somewhere to host the 
files, I have a fair ammount of bandwidth going spare.

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>>>I just want to know how do you make it, and if is it possible to make the same 
>>>in other formats (mpg, divx, animated png...) instead of flash.
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>>Francois, the xfce webmaster used a VNS sesstion to record what he was
>>doing, he then converted them to swf format. I assume he used this [1] tool.
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> *VNC* session :)

Bleh, same typo twice. How did I manage that one =)

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>>As for other formats, I can only imagine. But I assume somewhere there's
>>a program to convert between vns and video or swf and video, from there
>>you can just use mencoder to re-encode it to yuor desired format.
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> Indeed, I used vnc2swf and it works very well.
> Alternatively you can use vncrec and transcode to create video files. 
> http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/
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> Tools do exist for creating a .swf file from a video file too.
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>>Whilst this is not the approach that was taken, you may also like to try
>>Wink [2], it is my undersranding that they're currently beta testing a
>>Linux version.
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>>Dave.
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>>*[1] http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
>>*[2] http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
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> François
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